February 3rd:

In advanced honor cashing-in-on of the Platinum Dunes FRIDAY THE 13TH reboot, new additions of Parts 1-3 have hit on DVD. Sadly the first part is the only one available on Blu-ray in the states, whereas all three are on BRD in the UK. Shrug. Part 3 is also in full 3-D for the first time on disc.

Then of course there are the Straight-to-DVDs fo the week, BLACK SWARM and KILLER MOVIE. I don’t know anything about either, though a lot can be inferred from their covers.

February 10th:

Stepping just outside the genre, but still in the realm of science fiction, we have BLINDNESS. The rather tepid response it got from critics had me in no rush to see BLINDNESS at a theater, but CONSTANT GARDNER and CITY OF GOD director Fernando Meirelles has me interested in the story of a world struck with an outbreak of, well, look at the title.

MY NAME IS BRUCE also got a general consensus of ‘meh’ so I’ve yet to see. Game on now, though. Also available on Blu-ray.

Kicking off the trifecta of red themed titles of the month is RED MIST, once known as FREAKDOG, from Paddy Breathnach. I’m not a fan at all of the wasted potential that was Breathnach’s SHROOMS, but I’ll give RED MIST a shot.

Second up is RED VICTORIA which judging from its cover looks in the vamp fantasy vein, but IMDb lists a plot about a person, “forced to write a horror movie by an undead muse who motivates him by killing his friends and family.” Could be passable.

FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES VOLUME 2 is exactly what that mouthful explains. THE LODGER is a remake of Hitchcock’s THE LODGER, though the filmmakers would rather you think of it as a retelling of the novel THE LODGER. Either way it calls upon Alfred Molina, which gives it slightly more credibility.

Also, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE hits Blu-ray. Not a horror title by any stretch, but it is David Cronenberg, this site’s favorite director. Already have my pre-order in.

February 17th:

Ugh. FEAST III: THE HAPPY FINISH. FEAST II (review) was an awful, awful, awful movie and I have no reason whatsoever to think that things are going to turn around. They couldn’t even get their lame sex-subtitle right. Is it not a HAPPY ENDING, not a HAPPY FINISH? Never going to see this.

Ah, THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (review). If you haven’t caught this OnDemand yet, today it finally hits DVD and BRD. I’m rather indifferent to the film. By no stretch is it a bad movie, but I wasn’t all that blown away, either. I’ll be giving it a second shot at some point.

QUARANTINE (review) doesn’t need much explanation. If you’ve not seen [REC] and don’t feel like buying a Canadian copy, which is surprisingly not a euphemism for bootleg, I suppose QUARANTINE will do. It’s whatevs.

Last up of the STD titles is ALIEN RAIDERS, which I’ve heard very good things about. Expect a review later in the month.

February 24th:

In advanced honor cashing-in-on the remake of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a new “unrated” copy of Wes Craven’s first film. I’m no lover of the seasoned shocker so I won’t be replacing my older, never watched copy of the film.

If the DVD cover doesn’t give it away, CYCLOPS was a Sci-Fi channel premiere. I caught bits and pieces of it and well, that cover delivers and then some. Unlike most films on The Most Dangerous Night of Television, the eponymous beast actually doesn’t look a Sega Saturn rendering, more like a Playstation 2, and is actually shown quite a lot.

Expect a review of RED SANDS at some point, the newest flick from the guys behind DEAD BIRDS (review). I’m really digging the cover which looks straight out of 1997. I’m game.

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